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Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.read more.
And you fathers, do not provoke your children to anger: but bring them up in the instruction and discipline of the Lord.
But if any widow has children or grand-children, let them learn first to be dutiful to their own family, and to requite their parents; for that is good and acceptable in the sight of God.
That they may teach the young women to be sober-minded, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, fond of home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not reviled.
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. Then Jesus, seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing by, said to his mother: Woman, behold your son. Then he said to the disciple: Behold your mother. And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for, by this means, some have unconsciously entertained angels.
And Jesus said to him: The foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have roosts, but the Son of man has not where to lay his head.
And it came to pass, as they continued their journey, that he entered a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at the feet of Jesus, and heard his word. But Martha made herself busy with much serving; and she came to him, and said: Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Bid her, therefore, that she help me.read more.
But Jesus answered and said to her: Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things: one thing is needful; and Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken from her.
And it came to pass, that he went, on the sabbath day, into the house of one of the chief men of the Pharisees, to eat bread; and they watched him.
And when he had entered the ship, he that had been possessed with the demons besought him that he might be with him. And he did not permit him, but said to him: Go home to your relatives, and make known to them what things the Lord has done for you, and that he has had compassion on you. And he went away and began to proclaim in Decapolis what things Jesus had done for him. And all were astonished.
And the man out of whom the demons had gone, besought him that he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying: Return to your house, and tell what things God has done for you. And he went away, proclaiming through the whole city what Jesus had done for him.
Whatever city or village you enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there make your home till you go away. When you go into a house, salute it: and if the house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it; but if it be not worthy, your peace shall return to you.read more.
And whoever will not receive you, nor hear your words, when you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.
And he said to them: Wherever you enter a house, there make your home till you depart from that place. And whoever will not receive you, nor hear you, when you go out from that place, shake off the dust under your feet, for a testimony against them. Verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.
And whatever house you enter, there remain, and thence depart. And whoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off even the dust from your feet, for a testimony against them.
Whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest on him; but, if not, it shall return upon you. And in that house remain, eating and drinking what they have to give; for the laborer is worthy of his hire; go not from house to house.
And every one that has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundred fold, and shall inherit eternal life. But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
And Jesus answering, said: Verily I say to you, There is no one that has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, who shall not receive a hundred-fold, now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.
And he said to them: Verily I say to you, There is no one that has left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who shall not receive manifold more in this time, and in the age to come, eternal life.
Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are maltreated, and wander about without a home,
By faith Abraham, when called to go out into a place that he should afterward receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: for he looked for a city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And I say to you, Make for yourselves friends with the unrighteous riches, that when you fail, you may be received into the everlasting habitations.
For we know that if our earthly house, which is but a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house that is from heaven, since, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.read more.
For we who are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not because we wish to be unclothed, but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now, he that has formed us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore, we are always confident, especially since we know that, while living in the body, we are absent from the Lord: for we walk by faith, not by sight: we are confident, indeed, and would be pleased rather to depart from the body, and to dwell with the Lord. For this reason we also endeavor, whether we remain in the body or depart from it, to be acceptable to him. For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each may receive his reward for the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether good or evil.
But we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.
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Husbands, love your wives, as the Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,
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When, therefore, they had taken breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of Jonah, Do you love me more than these? He said to him: Yes, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my lambs.
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That they may teach the young women to be sober-minded, to love their husbands, to love their children,
But to the married I give commandment, not I, but the Lord: Let not the wife leave her husband:
Wives, be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord:
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But I say to you, That whoever puts away his wife, unless for lewdness, and marries another, commits adultery; and he that marries her that is put away, commits adultery.
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for I remember the unfeigned faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and in your mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that it dwells in you also.
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Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her that is divorced, commits adultery.
Are you bound to a wife? Seek not a separation. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.
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And being previously instigated by her mother, she said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Immerser?
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But I say to you, Whoever shall put away his wife, unless on account of lewdness, causes her to commit adultery: and whoever marries her that is divorced, commits adultery.
But to the married I give commandment, not I, but the Lord: Let not the wife leave her husband: but if she leave him, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and, let not the husband put away his wife.
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And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead, and is alive again: he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
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And he did not permit him, but said to him: Go home to your relatives, and make known to them what things the Lord has done for you, and that he has had compassion on you.
But if any widow has children or grand-children, let them learn first to be dutiful to their own family, and to requite their parents; for that is good and acceptable in the sight of God.
Then he said to the disciple: Behold your mother. And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home.
to be discreet, chaste, fond of home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not reviled.
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Marriage is honorable among all men, and the bed undefiled; but lewd men and adulterers God will judge.
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
I will, therefore, that the younger widows marry, bear children, man age the house, and thus give no occasion to the adversaries to speak reproachfully.
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But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David, their anger was aroused,
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A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach,
if any one is blameless, the husband of one wife, if he has faithful children that are not accused of riotous living, or disobedient.
He answered and said to them: Have you not read that the Creator, at the beginning, created them male and female,
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While he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent to him, saying: Have nothing to do with that just man, for I have suffered much to-day in a dream, because of him.
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But Jesus said: Let the little children come to me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
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in consequence of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
For we know that if our earthly house, which is but a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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And I say to you, Make for yourselves friends with the unrighteous riches, that when you fail, you may be received into the everlasting habitations.
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He said to her: What do you wish? She said to him: Command that these two sons of mine may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom.
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to be discreet, chaste, fond of home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not reviled.
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to be discreet, chaste, fond of home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not reviled.
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After this I saw, and behold, a great multitude, that no one could number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and there were palms in their hands;
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away: and the sea was no more.
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And you fathers, do not provoke your children to anger: but bring them up in the instruction and discipline of the Lord.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be disheartened.
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one that rules his own house well; having his children in subjection with all gravity:
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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And he did not permit him, but said to him: Go home to your relatives, and make known to them what things the Lord has done for you, and that he has had compassion on you.
But if any widow has children or grand-children, let them learn first to be dutiful to their own family, and to requite their parents; for that is good and acceptable in the sight of God.
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And immediately the father of the child cried out, and with tears said: Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.
and besought him earnestly, saying: My little daughter is at the point of death; come, lay thy hands on her, that she may be saved, and she will live.
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In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And I say to you, Make for yourselves friends with the unrighteous riches, that when you fail, you may be received into the everlasting habitations.
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Behold, I am ready the third time to come to you, and I will not burden you: for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.
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Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they may go through the gates into the city.
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Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,
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But if any widow has children or grand-children, let them learn first to be dutiful to their own family, and to requite their parents; for that is good and acceptable in the sight of God.
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And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of the property that falls to me. And he divided his estate between them. And not many days after, the younger son, taking with him all that was his, left home for a distant country, and there wasted his property in riotous living.
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For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, revilers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
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And behold, a woman of Chanaan came out from those borders, and cried to him, saying: Have mercy on me, Lord, son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a demon.
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and said: Lord, have mercy on my son; for ho is a lunatic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.
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for I remember the unfeigned faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and in your mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that it dwells in you also.
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But being full of the Holy Spirit, he looked earnestly up into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; and he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.
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But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal.
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If then you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?
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And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin be trothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the name of the virgin was Mary.
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And when Jesus saw it, he was displeased, and said to them: Let the little children come to me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.
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And he took them at that hour of the night, and washed the blood from their stripes; and he was immersed, himself and all his, immediately.
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And when she and her household had been immersed, she be sought us, saying: If you judge me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and make it your home. And she con strained us.
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However, rejoice not in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
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And he arose, and came to his father. And while he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion on him, and ran and fell upon his neck, and kissed him.
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Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene.
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For the promise is to you, and your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.
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Then his father knew that it was in the same hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives. And he himself, and all his house, believed.
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One of the two that heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.
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In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
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That they may teach the young women to be sober-minded, to love their husbands, to love their children,
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Return to your house, and tell what things God has done for you. And he went away, proclaiming through the whole city what Jesus had done for him.
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But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, What ever of mine might benefit you, is Corban, (which means, a gift,)
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And he said to them: Why did you seek for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?
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(the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation,) and she besought him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
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And it came to pass, when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, that the babe in her womb leaped for joy.
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And Mary said: My soul magnifies the Lord,
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There is a lad here that has five barley loaves, and two little fishes; but what are these among so many?
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A New Home
John 14:2In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Education, At Home
Ephesians 6:4And you fathers, do not provoke your children to anger: but bring them up in the instruction and discipline of the Lord.
Individuals going home
Matthew 12:44Then he says: I will return to my house, out of which I came. And he comes and finds it empty, swept, and. set in order.
Not going home directly
Matthew 2:12And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed into their own country by another way.
Order In The Home
1 Timothy 2:1-2I exhort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,
Sending people home
Acts 19:41And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly.
